In this video interview, Marten Mickos, ex-CEO of MySQL, discusses the state of open source, lessons he learned from his time at MySQL, and how cloud computing changes everything including open source. He shares unconventional wisdom about the need for open source to think money. Read More »
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Digg, the San Francisco-based social media company, is dropping MySQL and instead betting its future on Cassandra, an open-source data store. It’s just the latest sign of the growing popularity of the software, which was developed (and open sourced) by Facebook to search through its inbox. Read More »
Just a few hours after Oracle’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems was approved, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz sent out an internal memo to employees discussing the impact the change in control would have. Go Oracle! he told Sun employees. There’s more to the story, though. Read More »
If you follow me on Twitter, then you know I am less than thrilled by the chaos created by LarryStock, aka Oracle OpenWorld, in San Francisco each year. The annual conference causes traffic jams and attracts enormous crowds that collectively jam up everything here in… Read More »
Several weeks ago, we saw a burst of news around memcached, an increasingly popular open-source caching software framework gaining attention from web companies and investors. Gear6 announced details of a new memcached-based product, and Schooner Information Technologies launched… Read More »
Oracle’s decision to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion is not only going to shake up the database business — it’s likely to energize the Java community, too. And of course, the deal puts the insurgent MySQL database in the hands of incumbent Oracle. Whatever the… Read More »
Hadoop, Cassandra, HBase, Hypertable, Open Neptune… these are some open source projects that are being pursued by web technologists in order to deal with explosion of digital data in a post-terabyte world. The traditional way to deal with unstructured data isn’t working. What we need is… Read More »
Marten Mickos, who was chief executive officer of MySQL prior to its billion-dollar sale to Sun Microsystems, has decided to leave the company, the second high-profile MySQL executive to do so in as many days. On Thursday, Michael “Monty” Widenius, MySQL co-founder and… Read More »
Being smart about legal matters can make a huge difference in the value of your company. Each legal decision you make — each strategic partnership, each trademark or patent filing — can add or subtract from it. During the ’90s, my law firm worked with an… Read More »
Last month we offered bootstrapping founders a short index of cost-optimization sites to help cut expenses for things like health insurance, web hosting, wireless plans and electric bills. Many of you wrote in to offer your own recommendations, so this week we’re expanding the… Read More »
BooRah, a semantic vertical search engine founded by former MetroFi employees, has indexed 100,000 blogs and over 100 review sites to create a nice restaurant review and search service for a variety of U.S. cities. Today, the Mountain View, Calif., company launched a partnership… Read More »
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